The Drifter's Wheel

"DePoy, a folklorist, excels at providing local color and creating complex characters. The story unfolds slowly and lyrically, giving readers a sense of small-town Appalachian atmosphere." --Booklist on A Minister's Ghost"By far DePoy's best, with top-notch plotting, full-blown characters, and a bit of Shakespeare thrown in." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) on A Minister's GhostFever Devilin, born and raised amongst the hill country folk of the Georgia Appalachians, left home a long time ago and pursued an education, then a career, in the wider outside world. A folklorist by inclination and profession, he left the strange world of academia behind to return to his family-home in the if-anything-stranger mountain town he grew up in. But oddness follows Fever wherever he goes and Blue Mountain, Georgia is no different.When a man shows up at his house, claiming to be over a hundred years old even though he looks like he's in his 30's, Fever is pretty...